Jesandy Jubilee!

DIY Apron

May 10, 2013 by KTgreen

I’ve come across several adorable aprons over the past year. Are cutesy retro aprons coming back in style? But would I dare get food on these?

This one is from the Heritage House in the Heritage Village in Crystal River.

Found these lovelies at the Anthropologie in Hyde Park in Tampa.

I’ve also seen several versions at craft shows. And if they are being sold at craft shows, why am I not busy making them???

But I usually have to have a reason to make something–so I decided that I needed an apron for a special photo shoot.

Picked up this pattern and some gingham at Jo-anne’s. They didn’t have the shade of blue that I wanted but I didn’t have time to order the fabric online so just went with it. The pattern was really easy.

I wanted to embellish this apron with yo-yos. (If you don’t know how to make yo-yos, click here for directions.) I love Moda fabrics and had picked up a charm pack of 5″ quilt squares at our local quilt shop, Tomorrow’s Treasures, sometime last year. I picked out some coordinating squares from the charm pack to use for the yo-yos.

Ready for the photo shoot!

DIY Apron — That’s my banjo! And Andrew’s got the grandkid’s guitar!

This was what we originally envisioned the photos for.

But we liked the pictures so much and I took about 100–we turned several of the photos into the guest book!

And, last but not least, it’s actually an apron–not just a photo shoot prop!

JesAndy Jubilee, The Cake Story

April 27, 2013 by KTgreen

During one of our wedding planning committee meetings, Jes said she wanted a stump for the cake stand. Perfect for a rustic wedding. Terry was assigned the task and he immediately called our tree guy Eli from JLH Tree Company. Eli said he’d find one but by the beginning of April we were a little concerned about getting a stump. Especially when the cake maker said it had to be at least 18″ in diameter.

Michelle found one on Etsy for $60! Zowie! We needed to redouble our efforts to find a free stump!

One day while out on our bikes we spotted some pieces of tree and asked the owner if we could have one. We took one of those plus Terry took a slice of a large stump that was still in the ground.

Nine days before the wedding Eli showed up with the perfect stump! Yippee!

Michelle and Ellen designed and created the cake.

According to Michelle: “Jes asked for the ‘light stucco’ style icing. Mom was all “It was so perfect and smooth until I had to rough it up.” We used gum paste leaves, and real berries with buttercream icing (a little extra butter in that buttercream – tasty ) on the outside. The cake itself was lemon scented white cake. Inside was a whipped cream style icing with the blueberry jam filling. Yes, the same jam from the favors. Simply lovely.”

The other two stumps didn’t go to waste. They served as platforms for the manatee photo board and then helped out in the fire pit late Sunday night!

Okay. That’s it for this wedding week. New adventures ahead!

JesAndy Jubilee, and there were more Parties!

April 26, 2013 by KTgreen

Andrew and Jessica hosted a run/walk on the morning of the wedding. Not only did people show up for the 8 am start after all attending the Welcome To Town Happy Hour the night before, a lot of them ran 5 miles! And a few took a wrong turn and did a 10K!

JesAndy Jubilee, and there were more Parties! — Bride and Groom

So we had the wedding. And it was wonderful, although we had some rain and the tents leaked, and some tables were very wet, and it was really cold. But it was still wonderful!

Sunday morning was Clean Up Day Party. That started about 7 am and ended at 2 am on Monday morning. These people like to party! They picked the right place to do it!